Cabinet for phonograph-records.



E. F. BERGERON.

CABINET ma PHOMOGIRAPH RECORWSXI APPLICATMM FILED MAY 7. l9l5- 5, mm a SHEETS-SHEET L.

E. F. BE RGERON. CABINET FOR PHONOGRAPH RECORDS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 7. l9l5.

Patented Mar. 5,1918.

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EDWARD F. BERGERON, 0F SNOI-IOIVIISH, WASHINGTON.

CABINET FOB PHONOGRAPH-RECORDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 5, 191.

Application filed May 7, 1915. Serial No. 26,592.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD ll. BERGERON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Snohomish, in the county of Snohomish and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cabinets for Phonograph-Records;. and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

I his invention relates to cabinets for phonograph records, and one of the principal'objects of the invention is to provide a cabinet in which cylindrical records may be kept, and said cabinet containing a series of shelves which may be partially withdrawn from the cabinet and said shelves each containing a revolving disk for carrying a number of records which may be inspected without fully withdrawing the shelves, thus reducing the possibility of accident to a minimum.

Another object of the invention is to provide a cabinet having a plurality of shelves mounted to slide therein, and some of the shelves being provided with means for containing cylindrical records in the cartons or cases and other shelves adapted t contain records removed from the cartons.

The foregoing and other objects may be attained by means of the construction illustrated'in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cabinet made in accordance with this invention,

Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the same,

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section,

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of one of the shelves and a disk mounted thereon,

Fig. 5 i a horizontal sectional view of the shelf, and

Fig. 6 is a modified form of shelf shown in perspective.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates as an entirety a cabinet which may be of any suitable size and form and preferably comprises corner posts 2 which form legs or supports for the cabinet, a back 3, sides 4, and front hinged doors 5, said cabinet being provided with a suitable top 6 which may be used for supporting a phonograph or other articles or devices. Extending from the front to the back are spaced cleats 7 upon opposite sides of the cabinet, and mounted to slide between the upper pair of cleats 7 is a shelf 8. Mounted on a central pin 9 connected to the shelf 8 is a disk 10, made of any suitable material, and also mounted on the pin 9 is a rotating disk 11 provided with a series of circular openlngs 12- designed for receiving cylindrical records in their cartons, the disk 11 being spaced from the disk 10 sufficiently to permit the said cartons to extend through the openings 12 and rest upon the disk 10 to hold the cartons firmly in place. This constructlon will permit the partial withdrawal of the shelf 8 so that upon rotation of the disks l0 and 11 all the records supported thereon can be inspected without danger of breakage, which might result if the shelf was intended to be thoroughly withdrawn. Owing to the rotation of the disks 10 and 11 upon the shelf 8 only a partial withdrawal of the shelf is necessary to give access to all the records.

A shelf 8*, and similar shelves 8 and 8 are mounted to slide in similar cleat 7 said shelves each being provided with a central pin 9 and a disk 10 being mounted to rotate on said pm. Each of the disks 10 are provided with a plurality of pegs which may be covered with fabric to prevent injury to the cylinders, said pegs a projecting up a suitable distance from the disks to hold a cylindrical record in upright position.

Each of the shelves may have a depend ing finger hold 14, by which the shelf may be readily withdrawn partially from the cabinet, and each of the shelves is provided with a bracing strip 15 extending from front to rear, and which as shown in Fig. 6, may be extended forward to'provide a hand hold 16.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that a cabinet made in accordance with thi invention may contain a large number of cylindrical records, and the shelves may be partially withdrawn and the disks rotated.

to give access to any of the cylinders thereon.

' Various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the claim.

What is claimed is A cabinet of the class described provided at opposite sides with horizontal Way arranged at intervals, a vertical series of shelves slidable'in'the said Ways, said shelves being provided with central, strips secured to the upper faces of the shelves shelves and rotatably' mounted on the pivot Copies of this patent may be obtained for pins, the spacing of the disks from the shelves permitting them to be readily grasped for rotation and the hand holds 15 enabling the disksand shelves to be readily drawn out of the cabinet, and cylinder supports carried by the disks.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of'two witnesses.

EDWARD F. BERGERON. Witnesses: MYRON W. TUPPER, W. M. VISTAL.

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Washington, D. C." 

